Referent

Chefarzt, Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral- und Thoraxchirurgie, Klinikum Peine

• since 2014 Treasurer of the ESCMID study group “Critically ill patients” (ESCIP)

• 2014 appointed to Professor of Surgery at Medical University Luebeck, Germany

• since 2012 Member of the expert group of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) for consensus on systematic review of the effectiveness of peri-operative antibiotic prophylaxis (PAP) and expert guidance on appropriate PAP

• 01 - 07/2012 Acting Head of the Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, General Hospital Celle (Academic Hospital Medical University Hannover)

• since 2012 Chair of the international Working Group “intra-abdominal infections” of the International Society of Chemotherapy  Infection and Cancer

• since 2010 Head of a European expert group for the antimicrobial treatment of complicated intraabdominal infections

• since 2009 Member of expert panel for the recommendation for antimicrobial treatment of infections of the Paul-Ehrlich-Society for Chemotherapy; head of section cIAI and co-head of section cSSTI (responsible for the guidelines for antimicrobial treatment of cIAI and abSSSI in Germany)

• since 2008 Head of the Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, Klinikum Peine (Academic Hospital of Medical University Hannover)

• 2008 Promotion to assoc. Prof. and Ph.D. Thesis about: process analysis and optimization of ergonomic aspects in minimal invasive procedures

• 2007 Certification as Thoracic Surgeon by the Federal Board of Surgery

• since 2004 Head of Working group “Intraabdominal Infections” of the Paul-Ehrlich-Society for Chemotherapy

• 2003 Certification as Gastointestinal Surgeon by the Federal Board of Surgery

• since 2000 Certification as General Surgeon by the Federal Board of Surgery   

• 1995 Dissertation on diagnosis and treatment of necrotizing fasciitis

• 1994 - 2008 Department of Surgery of the Medical University Luebeck

• 1986 - 1993 Study of medicine at the Medical University Luebeck. Certification as M.D. at the Federal Board of Medicine